STAT B PA P. EBS. 
Answer to the above Leiter. 
HIS royal highness is conscious 
of having nothing to reproach him- 
self with relative ta his frank, ean- 
did, and friendly conduct, towards 
the French republic and its sub- 
jets. A sovereign in friendship 
with the republic cannot but regard, 
with the most extraordinary sur- 
prise, the orders given to your ex- 
cellency from the directory. His 
royal ‘highness will not resist the 
execution of them by force, but 
will preserve the good understand. 
ing with the republic, still flatter- 
ing himself with the hope that your 
excellency will, on better infor- 
mation, revoke your present re- 
‘solves. 
~ Should it not be in your excellen- | 
cy’s power to delay the entrance of 
your troopsinto Leghorn till further 
orders, the governor of that place 
has full powers to agree with you 
upon’ terms. This I am ordered, 
by my sovereign’s express com- 
mand, to communicate to you, 
with that respeét in which I have 
the honour to remain, &c. 
(Signed) Vittorio Fossom- 
FRONI. 
Florence, Fune 26, f 796. 
Head-quartersat Leghorn, Fune <9, 
General Buonaparte ty the Grand Duk 
; ff Luscu Wy 
Roya Hicuness, 
‘AN hour beiore we entered Lez- 
horn, an English trigate carried otf 
two French ships, worth 500,000 
livres. ‘he governor suffered them 
to be taken under the fire of his 
batteries, which was contrary to 
the intention of your royal high- 
ness, and ihe neutrality of the port 
of Leghorn. 
_ I prefer a complaint to your roy- 
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al highness against this- governor, 
who, in his whole condu@, dis- 
‘plays a decided hatred against the 
French. 
He yesterday endeavoured, at the 
moment of our arrival, to make 
the people rise up against us: there 
is no kind of il! treatment that he 
did not make our advanced guard 
experience. I should, doubtless, 
have been justified in bringing him 
to trial before a military commis- 
sion; but from respect for your 
royal highness, intimately convinc- 
ed of the spirit of justice which di- 
reéts all your actions, I preferred 
sending him to Florence, where I 
am persuaded, you will give or- 
ders to have him punished severely. 
I must, at the same time, return 
my thanks to his royal highness, 
for his goodness in appointing ge- 
neral S:raraldo to supply the army 
with every thing that was necessary. 
He has acquitted himself with 
equal zeal and success. 
BuonaPaRte, 
Answer if the Grand Duke of Tuscany. 
GENERAL, ~ 
GENERAL Spannochi arrested 
by your order has been brought hi- 
ther, It is a point of delicacy to 
keep him in arresc, until the mo. 
tives of this step, which I presume 
to be just, are known to me, in or. 
der to giye you, as well as the 
Freoch republic and ali Europe, 
the greatest proof ofequity, confor- 
mabiy to the laws of my country, 
“to which I have always made it my 
duty to submit myseif. 
i send this letrer by the marquis 
Manfredini, my majordomo, whom 
I request you to inform in what 
Spannochi has been culpable. You 
may besides repose full confidence 
in him relative to all the objects 
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